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"fail to react" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it any time you want to indicate an inability to respond to something. For example, "When faced with a difficult problem, John completely failed to react."
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The Senate is unjustified in restraining its voice, even if administrators fail to react.
"The moment we fail to react to one rocket we encourage them.
They do not, though, sing less or fail to react rapidly to encroaching opponents.
Jenny felt, or without turning her own head saw, him fail to react in any way to any of it.
The organophosphates commonly used as pesticides do not fit into these pockets, and so fail to react with the metal.
"That's it," he says after a few seconds, when we fail to react, and in the moment before he leaves his smile freezes.
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At any rate, we failed to react to them adequately.
Mr Berlusconi has consistently failed to react unless bullied.
Instead, the public was stunned and confused, and it failed to react.
It failed to react to the worldwide craze for the low-carbohydrate Atkins diet in 2003.
The PSG defence failed to react and Ivanovic nodded the ball past a stranded Salvatore Sirigu.
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